PREFACE. IX 



"of its unintelligible nomenclature, together with 

 "its perplexing display of new divisions, and then 

 "it will soon be declared deficient in the main 

 "points, and be condemned to slumber on the dusty 

 "shelf. If in this little treatise on monkeys I shall 

 "succeed in imparting a love for natural history in- 

 "to the minds of my young readers, and at the 

 "same time convince them how much is gained in 

 "the field, and how little in the closet, my time and 

 "labour will be well repaid. I will introduce no 

 "harsh words to confound them, nor recommend 

 "to them systems, which at best, are unsatisfactory 

 "inventions. All that I have got to say shall be 

 "placed before them in so clear a point of view, 

 "that every reader, be his education light or solid, 

 "will be able to comprehend my meaning, and no- 

 "thing more than this can be required". Like my 

 model, my aim in this respect is to impart a love 

 of natural history to fishermen, and to gain amongst 

 them more friends and coadjutors for pisciculture 

 in India. In my Official Reports to Government 

 also, all the members of which are not necessarily 

 pisciculturists, I have studiously excluded all hard 

 words from the text, and pushed them unceremoni- 



